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Climate change: Obama announces new curbs on existing power plants
2013-06-26 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Seeking to propel the US faster into the fray on curbing climate change, President Obama laid out an aggressive plan Tuesday to sharply curb smokestack emissions of existing coal-fired power plants and to double wind, solar, and other renewable energy production from todays levels. Under a hot summer sun, wiping his brow repeatedly as if to underscore the presence of global climate change, Mr. Obama told an audience of students at Georgetown University that future generations of Americans including...
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Obama plan offers help to U.S. cities on climate's front lines
2013-06-26 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama's climate plan on Tuesday offered help to U.S. cities dealing with natural disasters and specifically for the region slammed by massive Superstorm Sandy in October. For Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey the plan came not a moment too soon. Hoboken, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, was in the bull's eye of Sandy last October, when storm surges flooded 80 percent of the city, causing $100 million in property damage to 1,700 homes and hundreds of businesses....
Obama climate push targets America's coal-fired power plants
2013-06-26 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Impatient over congressional inaction, President Barack Obama has unveiled a plan to battle global warming that takes aim at a big source of heat-trapping gases: America's coal-fired power plants
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Obama opens 2nd-term drive against climate change
2013-06-26 00:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Appealing for courageous action "before it's too late," President Barack Obama launched a major second-term drive Tuesday to combat climate change and secure a safer planet, bypassing Congress as he sought to set a cornerstone of his legacy. Abandoning his suit jacket under a sweltering sun at Georgetown University, Obama issued a dire warning about the environment: Temperatures are rising, sea level is climbing, the Arctic ice is melting and the world is doing far too little to stop it. Obama...
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Obama: Current levels of carbon emissions 'not right, not safe'
2013-06-25 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama says scientists concur that the Earth warming and that human activity contributes to it. Obama says that the debate over climate change has been put to rest
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